After your first post I promptly took the cover off mine just for the hell of it. Incredibly easy indeed. Found some well preserved insects I never knew were in there. I love the criss-cross design of the inner frame.

I have to say that I never knew about the removing of the carriage on the Lexikon 80. However thanks to your blog I have a much cleaner machine today. The carriage use to stop at 47 and I had to push it to 50. Now the machine is working like new! Thank You for sharing and saving my machine.

Hey Rob, every few months, i come back to this post because every few months, convince myself that it is time to clean up my own Lex80. Simultaneously, i also flirt with the idea of repainting it to resemble the Graphika, like how Dwayne of Vintage Technology Obsessions did. One of these days for sure...Thanks for documenting the steps for carriage and cover removal and give the boost of confidence to perform some surgery.

That an interesting process - it really does look like a Graphika but with a one-piece space bar and just the single lever coming out of the ribbon selector hole... and the badge of course. I haven't removed the paper table from the carriage - it looks fiddly but not impossible. The sculptural shape of these typewriters will really lend itself to a new paint job!

Wow, is it that easy? NOW I WANT ONE EVEN MORE!! (I already have a Lettera 22 and a Studio 44, and while their disassembly is not terribly hard, I couldn't get them as clean as I would like for lazyness and fear of braking things...)